Manos Tsangaris

Manos Tsangaris (b. 1956) is a composer, percussionist, and installation artist. He’s considered to be one of the most significant representatives of new music theater. He has been researching performance conditions as an essential part of compositions since the 1970s. In 2011 he founded the International Institute for Artistic Investigation (www.iike.de), and he conducts research in the field of scenic anthropology.
He has been a professor of composition at the Dresden College of Music since 2009. A member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin (since 2009; director of the music department since 2012); an artist-in-residence at the Zurich University of the Arts (2012/13); and a visiting professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (2017/18). Tsangaris has been one of the artistic directors of the Munich Biennale, festival of new music theater, along with Daniel Ott, since 2016.